Itachi Uchiha, one of Sector 7's most talented agents who goes by the name 'Red Eye'. He had completed many missions for the organization beautifully over the last two years and was now their most famous agent besides Tager.
However, before this, he was Itachi Uchiha of the Akatsuki. A criminal known for murdering his entire clan in order to protect his home from destroying itself. He weighed all the hate and blame on his shoulders to protect what he loved, and died as an unsung hero.
So this has you wondering, how could he be a member of this society of science? Well, let's turn back time and see.
Unknown Area and Time:
Storm clouds floated high in the air as rain poured down upon the earth from above, glistening the ground with crystal clear water droplets. As the rain poured down, a massive figure traversed through the ruins of an old hideout. As he walked into the entrance of what seemed to be a cave, he pressed a small button on the earpiece he had on.
"Kokonoe, this is Tager. Do you read me?" He spoke.
"Loud and clear, Tager. Tell me what you see." Kokonoe replied.
"I'm in some sort of ruins. The architecture of them is unlike anything I've seen before." Tager responded.
Back in her lab, Kokonoe unwrapped a Silver Vine Candy pop and put in her mouth.
"You're in another dimension, Tager. Of course their architecture is different from ours." She pointed out.
"I guess so. I still can't believe your Dimensional Transporter actually worked!" The Red Devil said in surprise.
"And you had doubts that it was going to split you into pieces and scatter you across the Boundary!" Kokonoe chuckled.
Tager deactivated his communication and pressed on into the ruins. He eventually walked into a caved in tunnel deep within the cave, blocking his path. This was the only way through and it was blocked by rubble, and since there weren't any other tunnels or pathways before he ran into the roadblock, there weren't any other options.
"Kokonoe, my path is blocked by a cave in. Permission to use brute force in order to proceed?" Tager requested.
"It's a ruin. Nobody's gonna give a shit if you break a few things." Kokonoe replied.
"Roger that." Tager said, sighting off.
He then swung his huge fist into the rubble and pulverized it easily, thanks to his enormous strength. He then pressed on.
A half hour had passed as Tager continued through the caves, and he had finally reached the deepest part. He should call Kokonoe and tell him he made it as far as he could.
"Kokonoe, I've reached the deepest part of the cave, so far, I've found nothing of interest." He spoke.
Kokonoe tried responding, but there was too much interference.
"Kokonoe, I can barely hear you." Tager said.
It was muffled by static, but Kokonoe managed to to say that there might be something in the cave that is screwing up the communication system, and that he should take a look around to see what it was.
Tager observed his surroundings with his Night Vision mod and found a coffin in the middle of the floor. The coffin had a strange piece of paper tapped on with a Japanese symbol written on it. How odd, having a coffin this far underground.
"What have we here?" The Red Devil wondered.
He approached the strange coffin and activated his X-Ray scanners. This allowed him to scan what was inside the coffin, and what was inside was a body, long since dead.
Tager decided to get a better look, so he opened the coffin and saw an unbelievable sight.
"That's... Incredible! This body isn't even the slightest bit decomposed! Kokonoe, I've found something. I'm bringing it back with me. Please prepare the Dimensional Transporter."
With that, Tager picked up the body and started walking back to the cave entrance.
Meanwhile, at Sector 7 HQ...
"Are you insane?! You don't even know where he is, let alone is he's alive or not!"
"Please, Professor. You are the only one who can see if he is! If there is even the slightest chance that Ragna is out there, than-"
"Are you retarded?"
"E-excuse me?"
"I'm asking if you're retarded. Are you retarded, Noel?"
"W-w-w-what?! P-Professor, I get that you're mad and surprised but-"
"Noel, is you think I'm just going to let you use my Transporter for a pointless manhunt, you got another thing coming."
"Professor Kokonoe..."
A door slid open and Tager walked in.
"Kokonoe, I've... Oh, Lieutenant Vermillion. Didn't expect to see you here." Tager said surprised.
He had walked in on Kokonoe and Noel arguing about using the Dimensional Transporter to find Ragna, who was somewhere in the Boundary. After Kokonoe used her "back-up" to restore everyone's memories of him when he tried to erase his existence from the world, Noel had been trying to convince Kokonoe to let her use the Dimensional Transporter to find him, and things never go well with this topic.
Kokonoe has constantly turned down Noel's request to use it, due to the lack of knowledge about Ragna's whereabouts, and evidence showing that if he's even alive. It usually ends in Kokonoe getting irritated and Noel walking away.
"Oh... Hello, Tager. I'm sorry, I was just on my way." Noel replied.
She started walking to the door and mumbled.
"This isn't over, bitch."
"Heard that." Kokonoe said.
"Stupid cat ears..."
"Heard that too."
The door slid shut as Noel exited the room. Tager then walked up to the cat girl with a body over his shoulder.
"Is that the body you recovered?" Kokonoe asked.
"Yes. Found in that cave I explored in Dimension 6." Tager replied.
He placed the body on a table and Kokonoe got a look at it. It was male, with black hair and wrinkle lines running down the sides of his nose area.
"Rarrr. Guy's a nice piece o' ass, I'll give em that." She said.
"So, what are you going to do with him?" Tager asked his boss.
She cracked her fingers and lifted her glasses.
"Work my magic."
Hours later, Kokonoe had the body inside of a large capsul full of strange green goo. She started using multiple programs in her database to find out who this guy was. She used retinal scanners, body tissue samples, Ars Magus, pretty much anything at her disposal to see what she could find out. A week had passed since then and Kokonoe had made no progress. She had not found out anything about the man. With everything else out of the question, there was only one option let for her to try. She had to bring him back to life.
However, that was no easy task. It's true that she had the technology to bring his body back to life, but without a soul, there would be no way to learn who he is. He would just be a zombie. Kokonoe had to recreate his soul, and that's no easy task. First, she needed a sample of the subject's DNA, which she had plenty of already, then she had to infuse it with magic to transform it into a mass of energy, and finally, throw it into the Boundary to breath life into the energy, which will mold it into an artificial soul.
The last few times she did that were with Lambda and Celica. Lambda wasn't an easy task because her body was decomposing when it was brought in, so she had to grow her new flesh with tissue replication stem cells. Celica was worse since her body was a skeleton, and all she had to work with was one bone she was able to dig up from her grave. The rest of her was already fertilizer, so one bone wasn't a piece of cake.
After steps one, two and three were completed, she then moved on to reanimating the body. After examining the body, she discovered that most of the man's organs were rotten by a disease, but his brain was still perfectly in tact and clean. It just needs an electric jolt to restart the body once she's fixed him up.
Kokonoe got him up on a table and got to work. She removed the infected organs and purged the rest of his body of any lingering infections, then filled him up with new organs and a fresh supply of blood. She stitched him back up and put him back in the capsule. Now was the time to infuse him with the artificial soul.
Kokonoe used her magic to infuse the soul into the man's body and waited for the the tank's display screen to give her a reading.
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Success!
It worked! The soul has bonded with the body. Kokonoe grinned in satisfaction. Now all that's left is to reanimate him. She pressed a few buttons and a button popped out that read 'SHOCK DEM HOES!' On it. She pressed the button and a powerful electrical current flowed through the tank's fluids. The body started shaking uncontrollably as the electricity ravaged through his body. This however was effecting her lab's lights as the electricity was being drawn from her lab's generator.
Soon, the lights went out and all power in her lab was depleted, leaving only darkness.
"Shit!" She cursed.
Kokonoe turned on her flashlight and pointed it at the tank. The EMPTY tank!
"That's not good." She said.
Then, something grabbed her from behind and threw her up against the wall. Kokonoe gasped as she saw two glowing red eyes with black comma marks in them staring dead into her soul. The man was ALIVE!
"Where am I?!" He questioned.
Kokonoe tried to free herself from his grip, but alas. He was too strong.
"Where's Sasuke?!" He questioned again.
Sasuke? Who's Sasuke? Now's not the time for questions. Just then, Tager walked in and saw what was happening.
"Kokonoe!" He exclaimed.
The man glanced back at Tager and dropped the Beastkin girl, then ran passed the cyborg at lightning speed. Tager went to his boss and helped her up.
"You ok?" Tager asked.
"I'm fine! We can't let that guy leave! Lock down the facility!" Kokonoe ordered.
Tager obliged and initiated a facility wide lockdown over the communication system. The building went dark and doors started shutting one by one.
The man continued to run through the facility with no idea where he was going, or any clothes at that. He turned at the corner and saw five armed soldiers heading straight his way.
"Don't move!" One shouted.
The man just kept running right at them.
"Fire!" The leader ordered.
The troopers fired their assault rifles at the man; bullets flying through the air at blinding velocities. One heading straight for the man's head, but he moved his head to the left and dodged the bullet. More were zooming towards him, and he avoided them all the same. He moved as if he were super human, dodging bullets like nothing at all.
He then got up to the leader and knocked him out by thrusting his palm into his face with powerful force. In fact, he sent the solider flying in the process. He then zoomed towards another solider at inhuman speed and low kick him off his feet, then slammed his elbow into the trooper's face. The solider fell to the floor, unconscious. Now the man zoomed at the third one and kicked him in the jaw, also knocking him out. Once at the forth, he yanked off the guy's prosthetic leg and swung it at his gut, making him bend forward, then followed up by slamming the fake limb into the back of his head, dropping the soldier to the floor with a loud thud.
Incredible, he took out four highly trained men with ease! The man turned to his back and saw the fifth soldier pointing his rifle at the man with the built in grenade launcher ready to fire.
"FREEZE!" The trooper ordered.
The man stopped dead.
"DROP THE LEG! DROP THE LEG NO-"
The leg was thrown at the soldier's face, knocking him out. That was easy...
The man the went over to the soldier and started removing his clothes, then putting them on himself. It would seem that he knew the art of disgusting one's self. He put on the soldier's hat to finish the facade and picked up the rifle, then disengaged the grenade launcher. He paid close attention to how these guys were using their guns when they were firing at him. He noticed how they pulled the trigger to fire, how to eject the empty mag and replace it with a full one, ejecting an empty round from the chamber. Everything.
The man then started to run down the hallway, looking for an open exit. A soldier went up to him and stared into his eyes.
"Private Chofflofski, did you see the a naked man running through here?" He barked.
Chofflofski? The man looked down and saw the uniform's name tag. It must be that other guy's name.
"ARE YOU DEAF, PRIVATE?! I SAID DID YOU SEE A MAN RUNNING AROUND HERE IN HIS MOTHER FUCKIN' BIRTHDAY SUIT?!" The soldier shouted.
The man pointed to the right, down the hallway. The soldier then started running in said direction. After that, he continued down the hall in an attempt to escape the facility. As he went through an automated door, he entered a room that was lit up by red lights. The man then stopped dead in his tracks upon seeing a familiar face. Tager.
"You gave us quite the slip, kid." The giant said.
The man the fired the rifle at the Red Devil; bullets bouncing off of his metal body like bouncy balls on a wall.
"That won't work." Tager pointed out.
The man dropped his gun and pulled out a combat knife, then took a stance.
"I don't want to have to fight, kid. Not only because you're vital to our research, but also the fact that don't like fighting women and children." Tager said, trying to avoid conflict.
He charged at the cyborg, blade in hand.
"Stop! You're body can't handle fighting me! I don't want to hurt you!" Tager pleaded.
"Don't worry. Appearances can be deceiving." The man said.
He jumped up and threw his knife at Tager, but the Red Devil flicked it away. This however was a distraction as the man slid underneath Tager and got back up behind the cyborg. The man started to make hand signs and breathed in air.
"Fire Style: FIREBALL JUTSU!"
He breathed a massive fireball and it blew Tager off his feet and into the ground. His back was scorched and smoking from the intense flame attack. Tager got back up and stared at the man in shock.
"Like I told you, appearances can be deceiving." He spoke.
"Not bad, rookie. I guess you're a lot stronger than I thought. That was quite an attack." Tager complimented.
The machine started to generate electricity through his arms and charged.
"But can you compete with my MAGNA TANK WHEEL?!"
Tager then started spinning like a tornado while zooming towards the man like a spin top with lightning bolts flying out from his arms.. The man leaped over Tager with ease and avoided the attack. The Red Devil stopped spinning and rocketed at the man again with his fist charged with electricity.
"TERRA BREAK!"
He hit the man dead on and it seemed that he did some real damaged, but then the strangest thing happened. The man then transformed into a flock of crows which flew away.
"What?!" Tager exclaimed.
Tager turned to his left and saw the man standing against the wall.
"A substitution. Very impressive... Itachi Uchiha."
The man, Itachi, went wide eyed upon hearing his name.
"You're name was inscribed on that piece of paper attached to your coffin. We know your name, but not who you are." Tager explained.
"My coffin? You... You brought me back from the dead?" Itachi questioned.
"Not exactly. You're not who you think you are."
Itachi turned around and saw Kokonoe approaching from out of the shadows, sucking on a lollipop.
"What do you mean? Who are you people?" Itachi questioned.
Kokonoe chuckled.
"We have a lot of talking to do, Mr. Uchiha."
Next time
As the gang reunites, consequences of previous surface, what will happen?